Question for British: Are you getting your money's worth, healthcare-wise?

Here in the US, our democratic leaders are attempting to institute socialized medicine, based on the British model. This effort is being led by Hillary Clinto. Do you Brits have any advice? Are you getting what you are paying for, in taxes? Can you see a doctor within a couple hours if you happen to be sick? If you need an operation, who decides and how soon can you get it? How is the dental care, is it strictly for taking care of dental pain or does it allow cosmetic dental like most normal Americans have? What would we lose or gain by going to socialized medicine/universal health care?
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our health care system is in a complete mess. I have quite a good doctor so i can usually phone up in the morning and get an appointment in the afternoon but other people have to wait days maybe weeks to get an appointment. Anything we do have that the doctor prescribes we have to pay £6.95 for each item unless we receive benefits. Operations take months maybe years to come through and then there is the health risk that you might get a super bug called MRSA as they can't be bothered to clean the hospitals as the government have cut the funding to the National Health Service by that much that it is crippling the life out of our Health care system. But saying that the people who work for them are dedicated and loyal my Nan was clinically dead for 6 months with a blood clot and they fought long and hard to save her life and my grandfather was treated with happy and caring people when he was having treatment for throat cancer (5 years in remission). Its not all bad with the healthcare system but the government have a lot to answer for with the state that it is in.
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